January 2012
27 posts
rachelfershleiser:
“I find these restrictions dismaying because they disproportionately target women with lower incomes. Wealthy women will always be able to access the health care they need. Planned Parenthood is there for every woman. This is an organization that works in communities to provide high-quality care like cervical cancer screenings, breast exams, HIV tests and birth control-often to...
On Reading Difficult Books →
Nowadays I wonder how I could have read so many books that were such heavy going and which I so clearly disliked. It only shows what a cowardly, deferential youth I was. Rather than find my own tastes, my own pleasures, I tortured myself by slavishly emulating someone else’s idea of a good time. Now I know that while I find Don Quixote hilarious, other readers may think of it as an overlong...
Look Both Ways: English is hard. →
lookbothways:
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart,…
“This is the second time that January Jones has been cast in 1962 opposite an...”
– WXN&MLKN: Best X-Men: First Class Trivia
“Every magazine you buy goes to a good cause,” Bullock said, “and every beer you...”
– Go Amanda B, way to push the booze.
Proud of my quote in this article. You can’t party inside a laptop: mini lit-mags convene to network and celebrate the season | Capital New York (via housingworksbookstore)
December 2011
25 posts
“The gay and lesbian community of Minnesota has issued a letter of apology to...”
– MUWAHAHAHA.
Gay community apologizes to Amy Koch for ruining her marriage - Minneapolis News
(via rachelfershleiser)
THANK YOU! →
housingworksbookstore:
Each quarter, Book Riot donates 2% of its gross revenue to one charity. After being nominated and selected as one of five finalists to receive this donation this quarter, Housing Works won more than 50% of the votes during the November 22nd through December 5th period of public voting on …
The Regift Shoppe
housingworksbookstore:
Not ready to brave the holiday shopping crowds of Herald Square? Trying to decide if that neighbor, co-worker, or second cousin is gift-worthy? Exit Creative Company has created a virtual solution to your very real problem. The Regift Shoppe has the perfect e-card, sure to make that not-so-special someone laugh out loud. Visit regiftshoppe.com, and for every virtual regift...
Madewell: The Madewell Denim Drive →
Gotta get on this this week.
madewell:
You know those jeans at the bottom of your drawer that you haven’t worn in years (and truthfully have no intention of wearing again)? We want ’em.
We’ve teamed up with the International Child Art Foundation to create the Madewell Denim Drive, where we’ll take your jeans and put them to…
“The best advice I could possibly give you, and forgive me if this seems glib, is...”
– Talent Is For Shit (via bradw)
“My goodness, Katie Roiphe discovered angry commenters on the internet. What a...”
– An email from my father.
Do you think it might be time to welcome a hip retiree into our warm little tumblr community?
(via rachelfershleiser)
If you ever wanted to know what kind of graphic...
…I’m the kind who decides to reference an over-the-top 50s interior designer who embraced Maximalism for a comment on a project, forgets the name of the designer, cannot find it on Google, calls a coworker who suggests Albert Hadley, Googles Albert Hadley, nope that’s not it, sifts through Amazon’s recommendations (“Other people who bought Albert Hadley also...
